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Noun: energetism
  1. The philosophical theory that energy is the substrate of all phenomena and that all observable changes can be interpreted as transformations of one kind of energy into another.
    "Ostwald's philosophical outlook, known as energetism or energetic monism, was strongly influenced by his scientific background and by the state of physical science at the end of the nineteenth century.";
    - energetic monism

Type of: philosophical doctrine, philosophical theory